Rucker, Rudy

Rucker, Rudy, Seek (New York Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 150-151. Seethe chapter Goodbye Big Bang, which discusses Andre Linde s baby universes. 

CAPOW (Cellular Automata Electric Power) began as a research project headed by Rudy Rucker at San Jose State University, CAPOW runs under windows 95/98/NT and contains a powerful. set of viaanalization tools for studying many different kinds of continuous-valued cellular automata. While designed initially for simulating the flow of electricity in a powergrid, it can be used to simulate a very large set of one-dimensional and two-dimensional cellular automata. 

In which we encounter Einstein, Rumi, God, the anthropic principle, Stephen Hawking, the Bible, Proust s hyper-realities. The Lobotomy Club, Sushi Never Sleeps, acto/5, brain surgery, Italian filmmaking, neorealism, stellar nucleosynthesis, the Big Bang, Paul Davies, Frank Tipler, Marcel Proust, H. P Lovecrafi, Andrei Linde, Sir Fred Hoyle, Rudy Rucker, Robert Jastrow, The Templeton Foundation, multiple universes, Paul Kammerer, synchronicity, and the shoreless sea of love. 

Professor Rudy Rucker of San Jose State University writes philosophically on this precise topic ... 

For decades, there have been many popular science books and science-fiction novels on the subject of the fourth dimension. My favorite science book on the subject is Rudy Rucker s The Fourth Dimension, which covers an array of topics on space and time. My favorite science-fiction story is Robert Hein-lein s — And He Built a Crooked House, first published in 1940. It tells the tale of a California architect who constructs a four-dimensional house. He explains that a four-dimensional house would have certain advantages ... 

Rudy Rucker, The Fourth Dimension (Boston Houghton-Mifflin, 1984). 

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